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The Serco-led public-private partnership which runs London’s St Thomas’ and Kings College hospitals’ path labs, GSTS Pathology, has run into trouble having made a...

THE Fire Brigades Union has welcomed an offer from the government in Northern Ireland that would allow firefighters to retire at 55 without financial...

US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...

Chancellor Osborne yesterday announced the first £6.2bn of savage cuts planned by the Tory coalition. At a press conference, Osborne confined himself to generalities, then...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has responded angrily to a witch-hunt launched by Murdoch’s Sun, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph and the Daily Mail which...

THE IMF warned yesterday that the British banks have a ‘very large potential to originate global shocks’. As if that was not enough they added...

GATE Gourmet locked out workers lobbied the General Council of the TGWU yesterday morning. They called on their union leadership to reinstate their hardship payments,...

Forty-five striking Operating Department Practitioners and theatre nurses were joined by other staff at lunchtime yesterday outside Barnsley Hospital. The Barnsley nurses, members of the...

TORY Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cut the schools repair budget in half in 2021 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, it emerged yesterday...

AS OF yesterday, doctors, nurses and NHS staff are required to demand documentation from patients to prove that they are eligible for free...

ASSOCIATION of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) president Hank Roberts last night alleged that there is a widespread theft of tax-payers’ money by schools...

TORY prime minister Rishi Sunak escalated military action against the Houthi movement in Yemen yesterday, while also announcing that 20,000 British armed forces will...

SCHOOL classrooms are at bursting point, with half a million pupils squeezed into classrooms with more than 40 in a class. Labour Party analysis highlighted...

LABOUR’s plan for a permanent customs union with the EU after Brexit can secure a Commons majority, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday. He called...

THE General Medical Council (GMC) has threatened to close North Middlesex District General Hospital including its Accident & Emergency Department. The GMC, which regulates doctors,...

THE new two-year business plan for British Airways was unveiled yesterday and includes provision for reducing costs by £450 million and restoring 10 per...

THE number of GPs having to refer patients to food banks is increasing, with more than one in five having to take drastic action...

THE TORIES have been stripping sufferers of multiple sclerosis of the vital funds they need to buy mobility scooters and vehicles if they can...

THE RMT transport union confirmed yesterday that it is mobilising grassroots opposition amongst rank and file trade unionists to an invitation to Tory Prime...

OVER ONE hundred British MPs have demanded an immediate cessation of the UK’s arms sales to Israel amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. This request...

ON SATURDAY, the BMA held a rally to launch its campaign for Pay Restoration. Balloting opened for strike action on 9th January and votes...

TORY Chancellor Osborne refused to appear in parliament yesterday to answer an urgent question on the crisis surrounding last Wednesday’s budget, which cut disabled...

A group of 240 doctors are to stand ‘as many candidates as possible’ against coalition MPs in the next general election. They want to show...

‘THOUSANDS of firefighters face the sack’ as a result of the Public Sector Pensions Bill, which imposes a normal pension age (NPA) of 60...

PALESTINIAN resistance movement Hamas yesterday denounced the latest Israeli airstrikes against the Gaza Strip, describing them as a desperate attempt by the regime to cover...

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday called for disciplinary action to be taken against Britain’s top military commander, General Sir Nicholas Houghton, over political interference. Corbyn...

ISRAELI forces cracked down on an anti-annexation protest yesterday which was heading towards Khirbet Humsa al-Fawqa village, near Tubas in the northern Jordan Valley,...

THE Palestinian National and Islamic Forces in Gaza have released a defiant message in response to Donald Trump’s and Israel’s forced displacement plans: ‘ The...

unions have angrily condemned the news that Academies can now employ unqualified ‘teachers’. The change, announced late last Friday afternoon, is immediate. Until now, state-funded...

‘ENOUGH is enough, it’s time to follow the successful policies of other countries and ban these contracts once and for all,’ GMB’s Tim Roache...

JOE Morgan from the GMB yesterday morning treated the YS marchers to a hearty breakfast to fuel their journey from Birmingham out to Wolverhampton...

THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a dire warning that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is nearing total collapse, as...

GREEK public sector workers launched a 24-hour national strike yesterday against the SYRIZA (Coalition of the Radical Left)- ANEL coalition government’s new austerity accord...

ANDY Burnham, the shadow health secretary, met with around 40 representatives of leading NHS organisations on Wednesday night, to discuss Labour policy for the...

‘THE KILLINGS near aid distribution hubs are getting immeasurably worse and show no sign of ameliorating, considering how much Palestinians are in need of...

WRP parliamentary candidate for Camberwell and Peckham Joshua Ogunleye had a warm welcome for his socialist policies at the London College of Arts Camberwell...

BRITISH Airways workers are being threatened again that they will either have to work longer or pay more to maintain the value of their...

UNITE has called for urgent reforms into how the deaths of workers and members of the public killed and injured in road accidents...

OVER four million public sector workers are set to strike over pensions this November, after trade union leaders announced at the TUC congress yesterday...

DELEGATES at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Annual Congress at the Brighton Conference Centre cheered and gave General Secretary Pat Cullen a standing...

UPSET and angry relatives reacted bitterly to the news yesterday that there will be no charges over the death of Ian Tomlinson during the...

‘We call on all trade unionists and anti-war campaigners to support this good cause, Chagos Islands Community Association chairwoman, Hengride Permal, said yesterday. ‘We need...

The Peace Camp in Parliament Square was brutally raided by armed police with dogs at 8am yesterday morning and its leaders were arrested and...

DURING their five-day strike which concludes today, hospital staff working for SERCO gathered for a lively union rally at the Royal London Hospital at...